Glad to see you didn't let the streak die! Nice score for only 17 hours.
Thought I'd be able to do a full effort, but ran late installing the new DXE
reversible Beverage on Saturday. That wasn't necessary for the contest, but
I had very limited time available before CQ WW CW to do it, and good enough
weather for antenna work isn't common here in November. Didn't want to be
trudging through a foot of snow along 600' of woods! It was worth it: the
Beverage works quite well and I'm glad I did it. Hopefully, it'll help me
pickup some additional Carribean mults in CQ WW CW.
Lost a little more time on Sunday when I discovered one of my 80m wires was
down. Took the time to cleanup another wire antenna, too.
So, only got about 9.5 hours in, most of them during sub-optimal times. But
did about 500 Qs, which provided good practice. Made a point of working the
second radio hard while CQing, and several times S&Ped on both radios at the
same time with the filters at 1KHz. The latter is a good drill for decoding
several signals in each ear.
Also focused on S&P more, trying to improve my rate (not easy in SS!)
Despite a lot of effort, missed 3 sections: NLI, MB and NT. Not surprised I
missed Ed at VY1JA. When did you work him? I've often worked Jay in the
first few hours, so not being on at that time this year might have been a
problem. I looked all over for MB, but heard no VE4 (and not that many VEs
in general.) That one is usually pretty easy. NLI sometimes comes late --
they probably have a lot of CCRs there -- but I've never missed it.
Still the best warmup for CQ WW CW. Getting psyched for that. My new 2-el
40m did really well in WPX and IARU. WW will be the definitive test. Didn't
get around to the 80m 4-square or 160m sloping vertical (patterned after
yours.) Maybe next year. Also playing around with models to see if I can
stick monobanders for 15 and/or 10 between the SteppIRs, like K1DG did at
N1LI. So far, my models show the SteppIRs don't like that on 15. I ran a
model of Doug's situation and I think he's getting a big vertical lobe on
the SteppIR stack on 15. Have more work to do to verify that.
73, Dick WC1M
> -----Original Message-----
> From: webform@b4h.net [mailto:webform@b4h.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 7:28 AM
> To: 3830@contesting.com; k5zd@contesting.com
> Subject: [3830] SS CW K5ZD Single Op HP
>
> ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
>
> Call: K5ZD
> Operator(s): K5ZD
> Station: K5ZD
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs): 17
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs
> ------------
> 160: 0
> 80: 419
> 40: 410
> 20: 279
> 15: 17
> 10: 0
> ------------
> Total: 1125 Sections = 80 Total Score = 180,000
>
> Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> My wife is working in the political campaign and left me as a single
> parent
> with our 6 year old daughter for the weekend. I didn't think I would
> get much
> operating time, but did pretty well on Sat night after she went to
> bed.
>
> Conditions were the best I have heard in a long time. 80-20 were open
> long and
> short at the same time (instead of just long). So it was actually
> possible
> to work stations this side of the Mississippi River!
>
> Once I saw the rates that were possible this year (thanks ARRL for a
> great
> marketing and PR campaign around the contest), I worked hard to get
> over 1000
> QSOs. Keeping my streak alive at 32 consecutive years with more than
> 1000
> QSOs.
>
> Hope everyone had as much fun as I did.
>
>
> Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at:
> http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
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